natural disaster

As the US Securities & Exchange Commission (SEC) publishes a new set of proposed rules on climate risk disclosure, it’s becoming increasingly clear regulating for climate risk reporting is going to drive risk management and risk transfer spend, with ramifications and opportunity for insurance, reinsurance and insurance-linked securities (ILS).

The Government of Viet Nam, through its Ministry of Finance, has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to become the eighth member of the Southeast Asia Disaster Risk Insurance Facility (SEADRIF).

The World Bank is working alongside the governments of Singapore and Japan to establish a disaster insurance pool to cover infrastructure risks for Asian countries, with the facility set to provide coverage from later this year.

Japan is set to back and help fund the launch of the Southeast Asia Disaster Risk Insurance Facility, a parametric disaster insurance pool that will be established to serve ASEAN nations including Laos, Myanmar and Cambodia to begin with.

Reinsurance firm Swiss Re has given a preliminary estimate for global economic and insured losses from natural and man-made disasters of just $23 billion for the first-half of 2017, which is down 36% on the prior year and 30% below average. Economic losses are estimated at just $44 billion, down from $117 billion in H1 […]

Global economic and insurance industry losses from natural catastrophes in the first-half of 2017 have both come in way below average, with just $19.5 billion hitting re/insurers which is significantly below the $29 billion ten-year average, according to data from reinsurance firm Munich Re.

The global insurance and reinsurance industry suffered $54 billion of losses in 2016, according to the latest data from Swiss Re’s sigma unit, with the United States leading the way due to a record number of severe convective storm events.

Impact Forecasting, the catastrophe risk modelling unit of reinsurance broker Aon Benfield, has said that severe weather and flooding in the U.S. in January is expected to result in an insurance and reinsurance industry loss in the billions of dollars.

A new climate index developed by the Climate Change Committee reveals the frequency of extreme weather events in the U.S. & Canada continues to rise, suggesting the potential for increased re/insurance industry losses, a trend supported by data from insurance and reinsurance brokerage group, Aon.

At $54 billion global insured catastrophe losses in 2016 were the highest since 2012, driven by earthquakes, severe weather, flooding, and tropical cyclones, according to Impact Forecasting, the catastrophe risk-modelling unit of reinsurance broker Aon Benfield.